Th e komedya, the oldest genre of formal theatre in the Philippines, deserves to be studied by scholars and revitalized by theatre artists as an essential component of the Filipino national theatre. Th is essay introduces the komedya, by giving a short overview of its history, script and production and by discussing two important issues ...

Moro-moro, also called comedia, the earliest known form of organized theater in the Philippines; it was created by Spanish priests. It began with a 1637 play that dramatized the recent capture by a Christian Filipino army of an Islamic stronghold. It was …

Th e komedya, the oldest genre of formal theatre in the Philippines, deserves to be studied by scholars and revitalized by theatre artists as an essential component of the Filipino national theatre. Th is essay introduces the komedya, by giving a short overview of its history, script and production and by discussing two important

Filipino theatre scholars like Nicanor Tiongson (Komedya) and Doreen Fernández note that the komedya, introduced by the Spaniards in the seventeenth century, “is a colorful theatrical tradition whose plots commonly revolve around the social, political and religious conflicts between Muslim and Christian (specifically, Catholic) heroes.

The document discusses the history and conventions of Komedya, a Filipino theatrical form descended from Spanish comedia. Komedya typically featured stories of royalty, battles between Christians and Moros, and themes of honor, love, and reconciliation.

2021年1月1日 · Komedya, or moro-moro, is a genre of the Philippine national theater that was flourishing from the second half of the 17th century until the second half of the 19th century.

This document provides a history and overview of the Philippine komedya genre of theatre. It discusses how the komedya descended from Spanish comedia plays introduced by Jesuits in the 16th century. It was used by Spanish colonizers to Christianize Filipinos.

2017年4月21日 · This essay introduces the komedya, by giving a short overview of its history, script and production and by discussing two important issues regarding the form: (a) its indigenization, or the process by which it became Filipino; and (b) its revitalization, or the ways by which the komedya was transformed in the past and is being transformed in ...

1982年5月15日 · The Komedya: Folk Drama and Total Communication DOREEN G. FERNANDEZ The Philippine komedya, which derives its name from the Spanish comedia (a full-length play in verse), is well known for being for- mulaic and stylized. The formula is always thus: kingdoms, Moro and Christian, are ranged against each other in love and in war; the

2019年8月10日 · Introduced by the Spaniards during evangelization and hispanization, komedya is a colorful theatrical tradition whose plots revolve around the social, political, and religious conflicts between the Muslims and Christian (specifically, Catholic) heroes as suggested by Tiongson in Komedya (the University of the Philippines Press, 1999) and ...